Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner s are central to
speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of
black spiritual struggles. Using fiction, history, and oral poetry
drawn from the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa, this book
analyzes how writers reinterpret episodes of historical slave
rebellion to conceptualize their understanding of an ideal
"master-less" future. The texts range from Frederick Douglass s The
Heroic Slave and Alejo Carpentier s The Kingdom of this World to
Yoruba praise poetry and novels by Nigerian writers Adebayo Faleti
and Akinwumi Isola. Each text reflects different "national"
attitudes toward the historicity of slave rebellions that shape the
ways the texts are read. This is an absorbing book about the grip
of slavery and rebellion on modern black thought."
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